cenizo

texas sage

Pink-purple flowers, silver leaves. A tough-as-nails drought tolerant evergreen that explodes with hundreds of colorful flowers after a rain. Loves sunlight, doesn’t like shade. Very popular landscaping bush in warm, hot and desert areas. Same properties as sagebrush.

Other vegetation included small trees that are rarely taller than 2 meters with the exception of a few mesquites and perennial shrubs such as cenizo, guayacan, leather stem, lotebush, and Spanish dagger.

This year, on the recommendation of Texas Attorney General Dan Morales, the state legislature passed House Bill 1001, a measure that would outlaw the development of subdivisions like El Cenizo unless they could meet all of the infrastructure requirements necessary for legal platting.

Former Webb County employees Johnny Amaya and Luis Camacho are accused of lying about quality of drinking water treated at the Rio Bravo Water Treatment Plant, which serves the neighboring towns of Rio Bravo and El Cenizo.

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